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Give the structure of phosphorus trichloride (`PCl_(3)`)

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Phosphorus trichloride has pyramidal structure. It ! has one lone pair of electron. It involves `sp^(3)` hybridisation. Due to presence of lone pair-bond pair repulsion bond angle decreases to 93°. The structure of `PCl_(3)` is given as :
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